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WASHING AND BLEAGHING MACHINE. No. 340,000. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

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WASHING AND BLEAGHING MAGHINB.

No. 340,900. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

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WASHING AND BLEACHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,900, dated April 27, 1886.-

Application filed March 16, 1885. Serial No. 159,123.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, S UIRE ToNEY, of Viroqna, county of Vernon, State of \Visconsin, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Steam-Cylinder \Vashing and Bleaching ll'laehines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the drawings 011 file, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to an improvement in steam-cylinder washing and bleaching machines, in which a cylinder perforated at its periphery, used for holding the fabrics to be washed or bleached and a means of agitating them, is ar 'anged to rotate around a longitudinal axis within a casin g, together with a boiler to generate steam and a hose to convey the steam from the boiler to the rotating cylinder and there evenly distribute it among the fabrics at the axle of the rotating cylinder by means of a hollow perforated mandrel, which is used for the double purpose of an axle for the rotating cylinder and a distributor of the steam.

Figurel represents an end view of the boiler and a sectional view of the rotating cylinder and its casing upon line i in Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the boiler and a further sectional view of the rotating cylinder and its casing in a plane at right angles to the former figure, and taken as indicated by the line 2' z in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on line .2 .2, Fig. 1, showing the vertical wires extending from the cylinder surrounding the mandrel to the periphery of the cylinder holding the fabric.

The bottom of the boiler is represent-ed at a, which is of an oblong form, the outside edge raised to fill the opening of a stove, made of copper or other metal; and Z) represents the body of the boiler, which may be made of heavy sheet-iron, tin, or other metal. At 0 an opening is made, covered with a screw-lid, used to fill the boiler with water, and the steam escapes from the boiler through an inverted spout, d, and is conducted through the hose 6 into the end of the hollow perforated mandrel i, which is used for the double purpose of evenly distributing the steam at (Model) the axle of the rotating cylinder and for an axle for the cylinder. The rotating cylinder f contains the fabrics, and needs but a few revolutions during the whole process. Side trunnions or bearings are placed at g g for the mandrel and axle to bear upon, and the fabrics are agitated by rotating the cylinder by means of the crank a. To prevent the mandrel from entering the cylinder too far, a shoulder, k, is made on the outer end of the mandrel. The rotating cylinder is segmentally divided to form a lid, f, for the insertion and removal of the fabrics,which lid is hinged atl to one side of the body of the rotating cylinder, and is fastened at the other side. This rotating cylinder is made of heavy tin, and of a circular or polygonal shape, preference being given to circular. A series of perforations, m, are made in the periphery of the rotating cylinder for the free and continuous escape of the dirt into the receptacle 0.

To use this machine, the boiler is placed on a stove to generate steam, which, impregnated with soap-suds, escapes through the inverted spout d and is conveyed any desired distance from the stove-to the axial center of the rotat ing cylinderffby means of the hose 6. The steam is evenly distributed among the fabrics at the center of the cylinder by escaping through the perforations a n a in the mandrel, and the fabrics are prevented from wrapping around the mandrel by means of a perforated tin casing or tube, q, surrounding the mand rel, and a series of vertical wires, 1), arranged in a row, extending across one side of the cylinder and connected at one end thereto, and at the other to the tube.

The lower part, 0, of the casing is used for a receptacle, and the upper part, p, is made in the shape of a lid, which is hinged.

I am aware that it is not new in washingmachines to convey the steam generated in a boiler by a tube or pipe to a revolving clothescontaining cylinder, and that a perforated central tube in said cylinder is not broadly new.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a washing-machine, substantially as described, the combination of the boiler and seoaoo 3. In a washing-machine, as described, a clothes-containing cylinder revolving on a hollow perforated and steam-distributing man- I 5 drel, and provided with a central tube surrounding said mandrel, and a series of internal vertical wires, whereby the clothes are prevented from winding about said mandrel, as shown and'described.

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Vitnesses:

' J. \V. IIAUGHTON,

H. O. FORSYTH. 

